Archives - 03 September 2013, Tuesday

If you click over to Mt. Gox, the most famous bitcoin exchange, one unit of the crypto-currency will set you back $145. But at Bitstamp you would pay only $129. (At time of writing; prices can change quickly.) Mt. Gox traders are thus paying a 12% premium for their bitcoins. That spre...

With talk of inflation and capital controls familiar to the bitcoin community, one might think Indian citizens would be jumping at the opportunity to adopt the digital currency, yet the hurdles to wide-scale bitcoin proliferation in India may be significant for the foreseeable future....

Games room specialist Liberty Games has created a bitcoin-operated pool table that runs on Raspberry Pi. Next to the table’s traditional coin slot, there is a QR code and an LCD screen, which displays the price per play in bitcoins. Users simply scan the QR code and send the displayed...

It’s been commonly reported in the media that the total value of bitcoin in circulation is well over $1 billion. But what does that mean? For bitcoin, this is normally calculated by market capitalization, which is a figure that is normally attributed to the total valuation of a stock....

Some time ago, I received an e-mail from my friend Timo Hanke. If you don’t know Timo, then you should, because he is, apart from a respected mathematician and Bitcoin enthusiast, an excellent person. The e-mail suggested that I looked into the nonce field to see if I could find out t...

The UpTake: Anyone interested in Bitcoin should study what's going on with Bitcoin casinos. The pairing may just be the best example of the future of the industry. And now that a Bitcoin casino has sold for the equivalent of $11.5 million in Bitcoin, the industry seems prepared for ma...

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While the Bitcoin community is trying to adjust the new regulatory rules and scrutiny, things aren’t going as well as they used to. Government agencies are targeting Bitcoin traders and in a latest development Bitcoin exchange Tradehill has suspended its platform indefinitely. Over th...

Coinchat is a browser-based chatroom where users can earn Bitcoin while chatting with other users. According to an article on TechCrunch , the Bitcoin-incentivized chatroom was created by a freelance web developer in Australia. The site has been up for about five months and has about ...

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To bring down the cost, Nandwani and his cohorts designed BitMonet to route payments through BitPay , a Bitcoin payment processor that charges a 0.99 percent transaction fee and gives the merchant the option of receiving payments in Bitcoin or having them automatically converted to do...

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The noises coming from the hackerspaces are difficult to tune into. Hardware innovation has been one of the loudest sounds along with the creation of new alternative currencies and protocols layered on top of Bitcoin. The developers work in small teams; designing new services and exte...

Bitcoin, the Internet currency launched in 2009, has increased in value by over 1000% in relation to the US dollar recent weeks. More people are buying bitcoins as a haven from what they see as volatile government currency. Singularity Hub has the full story: Are we witnessing the bir...

Using Bitcoin As A Marketing Tool To Build Links, Drive Business, and Get More Engagement If you are a marketer and are guilty of overlooking Bitcoin — shame on you! As someone who has done quite a bit of business online, I can tell you with an absolute certainty that you should be pa...

Some unidentified Swiss banks who are not cooperating with the US justice system, could face punishment, the Attorney General has warned, saying that the agreement creates "significant risks for individuals and banks that continue to fail to cooperate, including for those Swiss banks ...